Overview
“Sophie David was excellent and I would thoroughly recommend her services in such circumstances. Her overall style and approach to cross examination in such a case was excellent”
“Sophie did a great job at trial (…) Sophie was great at understanding my instructions for the matter and conveying this into a great result. I have worked numerous times with Sophie in the past and look forward to continuing doing so.”
Sophie accepts instructions across Chambers’ practice areas. She has a depth of experience in employment law and is regularly instructed in multi-day and short-notice employment tribunal hearings, including complex whistleblowing and discrimination cases, and injunctions. Sophie enjoys working on cases across a range of industries, including financial services, healthcare, defence, police, and education. That practice is supplemented by an interest in professional discipline and regulatory work, where she has been instructed within the healthcare sector.
Sophie has a particular interest in workplace investigations. She has been instructed as an investigator in both workplace grievance and whistleblowing investigations, across schools and other community settings. Those investigations have involved multiple witnesses and varying privacy and safeguarding concerns. She has juniored for various members of Chambers in high-profile investigations. Particularly, she assisted Elizabeth Melville on a sensitive workplace investigation at a Premier League football club, including by conducting witness interviews. She has recently assisted Jack Mitchell on a complex and document-heavy investigation within the Trade Union sector.
Sophie is also regularly instructed in valuable personal injury claims at all stages. She has built experience in Armed Forces Compensation Scheme cases, where she both advises on and has successfully appealed Secretary of State decisions and awards. Sophie enjoys working with medical and technical experts. She developed that interest through her work in Canada as the Middle Temple Scholar at the top-ranked Canadian law firm (Lenczner Slaght LLP) where she worked on clinical negligence cases involving serious and fatal injury.
Prior to joining chambers, Sophie worked as the Middle Temple Fox Scholar at Lenczner Slaght LLP on a range of high value commercial cases, company disputes, injunctions and clinical negligence cases. Before coming to the bar Sophie worked in financial services.
When not in court, Sophie is outdoors, as a keen swimmer, runner and hiker.
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